Military jacket

1918

Not on view

This N.Y. National Guard jacket, with its black mourning armband, was created Henry Poole & Company, a Savile Row tailor. Its owner, Rodman Wanamaker, born Rodman Arturo de Heeren (1909-1983), was the great-grandson of John Wanamaker (1838-1922), founder of the eponymous department store in Philadelphia. His grandfather, John Wanamaker's second son, Lewis Rodman Wanamaker (1863-1938), inherited the Wanamaker stores from his father. Heeren was the son of Fernanda Wanamaker (1887-1958) and Arturo de Heeren (1879-1939).

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Title: Military jacket
Designer: Henry Poole & Co. (British, founded 1806)
Date: 1918
Culture: British
Medium: wool
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Rodman A. Heeren, 1960
Object Number: 2009.300.844
Curatorial Department: The Costume Institute

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